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641) Commentary Note for line 3466:
3466 Ham. I loued Ophelia, forty thousand brothers

    ... he scene at the grave, that he still loves her! In this case we could wish that Shakespeare himself had thrown a little light on so important a point. It is not ...
642) Commentary Note for line 3467:
3467 Could not with all theyr quantitie of loue

    ... he scene at the grave, that he still loves her! In this case we could wish that Shakespeare himself had thrown a little light on so important a point. It is not ...
643) Commentary Note for line 3468:
3468 Make vp my summe. What wilt thou doo for her.

    ... he scene at the grave, that he still loves her! In this case we could wish that Shakespeare himself had thrown a little light on so important a point. It is not ...
644) Commentary Note for line 3471:
3471 Ham. {S'wounds} <Come> shew me what th'owt doe:

    ... 7&gt;&#x201C; It is all very easy to understand providing we have gathered what Shakespeare has set before us in the preceding acts. He has shown us the same th ...
645) Commentary Note for lines 3472-73:
3472 Woo't weepe, woo't fight, {woo't fast,} woo't teare thy selfe,
3473 Woo't drinke vp Esill, eate a Crocadile?

    ... lton make use of <i>eysel</i> for <small><i>v</i></small><i>inegar</i>: nor has Shakespeare employed it in any other of his plays. The poet might have written t ...

    ... r trying his teeth an animal, whose scales are supposed to be impenetrable. Had Shakespeare meant to make Hamlet say &#8212;<i> Wilt thou drink vinegar?</i> he ...

    ... that river must be the <i>Nile</i> : it is more natural, to think &#8212; that Shakespeare sought a river in Denmark, and, finding none that would do for him, ...

    ... r trying his teeth an animal, whose scales are supposed to be impenetrable. Had Shakespeare meant to make Hamlet say &#8212;<i> Wilt thou drink vinegar?</i> he ...

    ... er than Chaucer or Skelton make use of <i>eysel</i> for <i>vinegar</i>: nor has Shakespeare employed it in any other of his plays. The poet might have written t ...

    ... ll <i>kills up</i>, by computation, an entire army. <i>Ravin up</i> is used by Shakespeare in <i>Macbeth</i>, and by D'Avenant.&#x201D;</para></cn> <cn> <sigla ...

    ... , were closer to the word in the text than it is, it is very little likely that Shakespeare was read in the early Danish history or geography, or that he would ...

    ... t; &lt;p. 360&gt;<i> Nile </i>and <i>crocodile </i>. I am, therefore, confident Shakespeare wrote: Woul't drink up <i>Nile </i>? eat a crocodile?&#x201D; &lt;/p ...

    ... &#x201C;There is indeed no doubt that <i>eisel</i> meant vinegar, nor even that Shakespeare has used it in that sense: &#8216;Whilst, like a willing patient, I ...

    ... > <para>&#x201C;There is said to be a river <i>Oesil</i> in Denmark, or if not, Shakespeare might think there was. <i>Yssel</i> has been mentioned, but that is ...

    ... , were closer to the word in the text than it is, it is very little likely that Shakespeare was read in the early Danish history or geography, or that he would ...

    ... <i>Esile</i> , as a proper name would be printed. Most editors conjecture that Shakespeare meant the river <i>Yssel</i> . Hammer [Hanmer] advises for <i>Nile</ ...

    ... to the <i>Nile</i> than the reading of Q.A. [Q1] <i>vessels</i> . In any case, Shakespeare had a river in mind, which Hamlet offers to drink up, but not vinega ...

    ... e expression &#8216;drink <i>up</i>' at all opposed to that interpretation; for Shakespeare has various other passages where &#8216;<i>up</i>' is what we should ...

    ... Or eat &amp;c.&#8212;Theobald und Warburton haben 'eisel' geschrieben, was bei Shakespeare selbst in der Bedeutung 'Essig' vorkommt ((Sonnets CXI; vgl. The Voi ...

    ... seel)) u.A. Wir sind, um es mit Einem Worte zu sagen, fest &#252;berzeugt, dass Shakespeare 'Nilus' geschrieben hat, wof&#252;r schon die N&#228;he des Krokodil ...

    ... h und der Inbegriff alles Wunderbaren und Ungeheuern, wovon mehrere Stellen bei Shakespeare selbst Zeugniss ablegen. Merkw&#252;rdigkeiten vom Nil m&#252;ssen i ...

    ... )); Ff; HAN;&#8212;Theobald and Warburton have written 'eisel,' which occurs in Shakespeare himself in the sense 'vinegar' ((Sonnets 111; compare The Voiage and ...

    ... m Nares ((s. Eisel)), etc. We are, to say it in one word, firmly convinced that Shakespeare wrote 'Nilus,' from where one speaks already the proximity of crocod ...

    ... and the incarnation of all wonderful and horrible, from where more passages in Shakespeare himself bear witness. The remarkable must have been produced from th ...

    ... . Even Steevens abandons this idea, while it today demands no elaboration, that Shakespeare nowhere observed so strongly costumes and scenes that he didn't use ...

    ... o, Eysil.) According to some authorities, vinegar; to others, wormwood. Used by Shakespeare to signify a repugnant draught, Sonnet 111.&#x201D;</para> <para>347 ...

    ... ' a word used by early writers to signify &#8216;vinegar,' or &#8216;wormwood.' Shakespeare uses it to express a bitter and unpalatable draught. It was a fashio ...

    ... i>up </i>would be redundant, a mode of construction very common in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. On the whole, however, I cannot but believe ...

    ... e expression &#8216;drink <i>up</i>' at all opposed to that interpretation; for Shakespeare has various other passages where &#8216;<i>up</i>' is what we should ...

    ... as a proper name would be printed. <small>Many</small> editors conjecture that Shakespeare meant the river <i>Yssel</i>. Hammer [<small>Hanmer</small>] advises ...

    ... to the <i>Nile</i> than the reading of Q.A. {Q1] <i>vessels</i> . In any case, Shakespeare had a river in mind, which Hamlet offers to drink up, but not vinega ...

    ... er than Chaucer or Skelton make use of <i>eysel</i> for <i>vinegar</i>: nor has Shakespeare employed it in any other of his plays. <small>Sh.</small> might have ...

    ... meant <i>ashes</i>, but Furness and many others agree to accept <i>eysell</i>. Shakespeare says: &#8216;I will drink Potions of eysell &#8216;gainst my strong ...

    ... 2;all this may be true, but still it is difficult to see how it applies, or why Shakespeare should have been thinking of vinegar and employed the word <i>aisil< ...

    ... codile? I'll do't.'</para> <para>&#x201C;It is extremely doubtful as to weather Shakespeare ever heard of such an obscure brook as the Yssel; and had he even ha ...

    ... drink up the Nile? Or eat a crocodile?'</para> <para>&#x201C;Observe how often Shakespeare uses Nile or Nilus in [<i>Ant.</i>] and [<i>Tit.</i>]; I cite a few ...

    ... f)], Antony gives Lepidus a full acount of the Nile and crocodile, showing that Shakespeare naturally connected and associated the amphibous animal with Egypt's ...

    ... on of a momentarily disturbed mind. Nilus of course would be more poetical, but Shakespeare did not, in this scene, intend to allow Hamlet more than&#8212;'<i>W ...

    ... lid objections had not a powerful right against it: the first of these is, that Shakespeare did not write the word; the second, that the Shakespearian climax is ...

    ... and many other commentators after hiim found in the word <i>up</i> a hint that Shakespeare intended t speak of the drinking dry of a whole mass&#8212;a sea or ...

    ... f the crocodile, that is, as the ladies say, &#8216;too funny for anything!' If Shakespeare had known of any animal bigger, more terrible, and more loathsome th ...

    ... sarly mean exhuast; it may mean drink eagerly, quaff. In <i>Sonnets </i>, cxi., Shakespeare names &#8216;potions of eisel' as a bitter and disagreeable remedy f ...

    ... t &#8216;Hamlet' was written; for the York play continued to be performed until Shakespeare was fifteen years old, while the Chester Plays were acted for the la ...

    ... phrase in &#8216;Hamlet' marks a hitherto unnoticed point of connection between Shakespeare and the primitive English drama.&#x201D; &lt;p. 201&gt;</para> <para ...

    ... me the term for a bitter drink <i>par excellence </i>; it is in this sense that Shakespeare himself uses it in <i>Sonn</i>. CXI. It was sometimes equated with w ...
646) Commentary Note for line 3474:
3474 Ile doo't, doost <thou> come heere to whine?

    ... en Ausbagen haben <i>I'll do't </i>nur einmal.&#x201D; [The artful pause, which Shakespeare allows to enter after <i>I'll do't</i>, the old Corrector understood ...
647) Commentary Note for line 3482:
3482 {Quee.} <Kin.> This is meere madnesse,

    ... 4tos. is given to the Queen, to whose character it is better suited. But if Shakespeare designed it for the King, he may be justified, perhaps, by some such ...
648) Commentary Note for line 3485_348:
3485 When that her golden {cuplets} <Cuplet> are {disclosed} <disclos'd> 3485
3486 His silence will sit drooping.

    ... 78) has been misunderstood. Here he seeks to remedy this by comparing works of Shakespeare and Milton to the Romantic model, specifically considering Gertrude' ...

    ... hochgelben Flaum bedeckt.&#x201D; [&#x201C;The reliable natural observation in Shakespeare is similar to a brilliant passage by Homer. The young of the house p ...

    ... memory.&#x201D;] Here we have hint of another way of accounting for this fact. Shakespeare knew that the deeper griefs of the soul are nursed and guarded in si ...
649) Commentary Note for line 3495_349:
3495 Good Gertrard set some watch ouer your sonne, 3495
3496 This graue shall haue a liuing monument,

    ... in his purpose by what had passed; everything is most ingeniously contrived by Shakespeare to fan the flame of his resentment against Hamlet.&#x201D; &lt;/p. 1 ...
650) Commentary Note for line 3497:
3497 An houre of quiet {thereby} <shortly> shall we see

    ... n houre of quiet shortly shall we see;' and it is obvious that, whether because Shakespeare happened here to form his &#8216;sh' like &#8216;th', or for some ot ...

    ... of quiet thereby shall we see,' and so made sense, though not at all the sense Shakespeare had intended. The example is instructive in more ways than one.&#x20 ...

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